After converting a couple of legacy Ubuntu 6(!) VMs from ESXi vmdks to qcow2, in Proxmox I setup the vm guests and chose the SATA interface for the qcow2 images. During boot up, grub was showing the error “Begin: Waiting for root file system… …” And after a minute or two waiting. “ALERT! /dev/sda1 does […]

Many moons ago I bought a MK809 II Android TV stick. This is a popular RK3066 device that one can flash G8’s Picuntu image, and run Ubuntu server on it. It was bleeding edge stuff where you could install an armhf version of Ubuntu 12.04 onto the stick. It makes an ideal “stick server” […]

Still being an Ubuntu newbie and learning, today I was looking for instructions to install the latest version of truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org I mentioned in my previous blogpost that I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Mini 9. This is a guide for beginners such as myself so please forgive me for being long-winded. In order to […]

Apart from a few user commands that I know to get by in unix (e.g. ls, mv, cp, top, etc), I am a bit of a noob when it comes to Linux. I bought a Dell Mini 9 a year ago, and I hardly used it because of its cough cripped version of Ubuntu 8.04. I […]